A Fully-Implantable Mems-Based Autonomous Cochlear Implant

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2022-01-01

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Külah, Haluk
Ulusah, Hasan
Chamanian, Salar
BATU, AYKAN
UĞUR, MEHMET BİROL
Yüksel, Muhammed Berat
Yılmaz, Ali Özgür
YİĞİT, HURŞİT
Koyuncuoglu, Aziz
TOPÇU, ÖZLEM
Soydan, Alper K.

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© 2022 IEEE.This paper reports a fully implantable, MEMS-based, low-power, energy harvesting, next generation cochlear implant (CI). The implant includes multi-frequency piezoelectric transducers for sound detection and energy harvesting, rectification and signal conditioning electronics, and RF coil for fitting and external powering. These units have outstanding performances: multi-channel transducer can generate 50.7 mVpp (under 100 dB SPL) and recover the daily sound speech signals; signal conditioning IC consumes outstandingly low power (<500 W) while converting outputs signals of the transducer to biphasic pulses; piezoelectric energy harvester has the highest power density (1.5 × 10-3 W/cm3) with generated 16.25 W under 120 dB-A sound input; energy harvester IC, provides up to 500% more power compared to an ideal full-bridge rectifier.

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Acoustic Energy Harvester, Acoustic Transducer, Fully Implantable Cochlear Implant, Low Power Electronics, MEMS

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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85126396114&origin=inward
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/97637

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https://doi.org/10.1109/mems51670.2022.9699689

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35th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Conference, MEMS 2022

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H. Külah et al., “A Fully-Implantable Mems-Based Autonomous Cochlear Implant,” Tokyo, Japonya, 2022, vol. 2022-January, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85126396114&origin=inward.